Handling financial data from an exchange is a fascinating problem. The data from a single exchange can include tens of thousands of updates every second, typically in the form of UDP multicast. Access to the real-time feed can cost thousands of dollars, but data becomes near worthless seconds (or fractions of a second) after transmission.
14 Minute Read...Really enjoyed speaking at the Southern Fried F# conference yesterday. Its exciting to be a part of The Triangle's first F# conference.
3 Minute Read...Recently, I needed to set up a static site and have it automatically update when I push changes to git.
It seems gratuitous to run a service to handle a single endpoint and do a pull. The site was static so it didn't need anything other than NGINX and it was running on a VPS so I wanted to use as little memory as possible.
10 Minute Read...As you may or may not know F# has a very useful feature for interoperating with the common C# TryGetValue pattern.
Starting from scratch lets set up a development environment for F#. Following this will get you completely set up for command line tools, servers and web UI development. I will not be covering desktop or mobile development but you should know that F# also excels in those domains.
I will go through setting up Visual Studio Code because that's what I use. If you are Visual Studio and Jetbrains Rider are also excellent choices.
11 Minute Read...I haven't done a lot of writing in the past few years and I'm still getting into the swing of things. I'm spending a surprising (at least to me) amount of time analyzing what goes on in my head when it comes time to write a blog post. I'm generally a very introspective person so this is probably good for me. 😄
3 Minute Read...Starting a blog is a little uncomfortable. I'm not quite sure what mode I should be in when starting to write a blog post. Is this informal like an email or is it more like an essay? Am I supposed to follow the 5 paragraph essay format? (probably not)
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